Comments on: Basketball: What the top-25 polls are worthhttp://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/2009/11/30/basketball-what-the-top-25-polls-are-worth/
Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:58:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3By: Steve Nguyenhttp://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/2009/11/30/basketball-what-the-top-25-polls-are-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-14722
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:32:43 +0000http://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/?p=7689#comment-14722Jeff, you can’t analyze Cal’s poll position simply by considering how it does in games. Everything is relative; you would have to analyze how other teams performed as well (relative to Cal). Polling is a rank ordering. Winning games shouldn’t have to vault a team up the rankings, and vice versa. Performance has to be evaluated relative to how other teams performed too.
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